A Democrat for which I’d vote for President, former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, when asked about gun control said “You control yours, and I’ll control mine.” Gov. Schweitzer of course is not running for President. Democrats of his mindset have been passed by thanks to the democrat party taking a hard left turn towards progressives. Instead, they selected former vice president Joe Biden. His take on gun control?
In September 2019, he was critical of a Texas law that allowed lawfully carried defensive firearms in churches in Texas. He called it “irrational”, and he also said he wanted to ban gun magazines that held “multiple bullets”- which is ALL gun magazines. About 3 months later, a lawfully armed church security member in Texas shot and killed an illegally armed gun criminal that was able to shoot two people before being stopped. Had that lawfully carried gun not been there, how many of the 240 people present would have died? To get an idea, in 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas before the law changed, a total of 26 unarmed citizens were shot and killed in a church by another gun criminal. What eventually stopped him was another lawfully armed citizen with a so-called “assault weapon” (actually a semi-automatic rifle as assault weapons are fully automatic and only used by the military and police) who engaged the gun criminal as he left the church.
Now after two Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriffs were shot by another cowardly gun criminal, Mr. Biden says we need to ban “assault weapons” and “high capacity” gun magazines. Here’s the thing: First of all, this gun criminal (who will likely be honored by the NFL soon) used a handgun, not a rifle. Second, so-called “assault weapons” have been illegal in California since 1989. That’s longer than many voters have been alive. Finally, California in 2016 enacted a “high capacity” gun magazine ban- which was subsequently overturned this year in court. None of these tough gun laws have had a significant impact on gun crime there. As an example, an illegally armed gun criminal in Thousand Oaks in November 2018 used illegal in California “high capacity” magazines- 7 of them. A total of 12 innocent people were killed, including a Deputy Sheriff.
These incidents show how out of touch with everyday people Mr. Biden is. With people of his mindset in office, the safety of these everyday Americans is at risk, to include our valuable law enforcement officers.
Paul Henry